“What Aretha and Smokey Robinson and James Brown were back in the ’60s, that’s me in the 2000s,” she crows down the line from her home base in New York. Jones has no qualms about labelling herself a living legend. “I look at Amy [Winehouse], look at Mark [Ronson]: when they wanted to make their record, they ran to the Dap-Kings. They came to our studio to record, and they came to us to get that sound. These young kids, these major labels, they can call it a revival or whatever, but we’ve been doing this for years.